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ispace’s Resilience lander crash lands on the Moon
The ispace Resilience lunar lander is pictured after it was integrated into the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle adapter about a week ahead of its launch on Jan. 15, 2025. Image: SpaceX via ispace In a horrible case of deja vu, Japan-based company ispace got to the finish line with its robotic lunar lander, but…
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Senate response to White House budget for NASA: Keep SLS, nix science
Negotiations over the US federal budget for fiscal year 2026 are in the beginning stages, but when it comes to space, the fault lines are already solidifying in the Senate. The Trump White House released its budget request last Friday, and this included detailed information about its plans for NASA. On Thursday, just days later,…
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Report: Starlink Receives Key Regulatory Approval in India as Elon Musk Feuds with President Trump
SpaceX scored a major victory for its Starlink constellation business by winning a long sought-after license from India’s Department of Telecommunications to launch commercial operations in the country, according to a report published Friday by Reuters. Starlink now needs to secure a license from The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Center and pass security…
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Report: Starlink Receives Key Regulatory Approval in India as Elon Musk Feuds with President Trump
SpaceX scored a major victory for its Starlink constellation business by winning a long sought-after license from India’s Department of Telecommunications to launch commercial operations in the country, according to a report published Friday by Reuters. Starlink now needs to secure a license from The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Center and pass security…
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SES Hires New CFO Lisa Pataki
Global satellite operator SES hired former Aerojet Rocketdyne executive Elisabeth (Lisa) Pataki as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO), the company announced June 6th. She will take over for Sandeep Jalan on June 16th. Jalan had been SES’s CFO since May 2020. Pataki joins SES as it is working to close its merger with another global…
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Canada’s Maritime Launch Services Wins Multimillion-Dollar Investment Tax Credit for Spaceport Nova Scotia
The Canadian province of Nova Scotia will issue a Capital Investment Tax Credit (CITC) worth approximately $10.5 million (Canadian Dollars) to Maritime Launch Services, a Canadian space company that has been working to build a spaceport in Nova Scotia. Maritime Launch Services will apply the tax credit to construction costs for a dedicated launch pad…
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Canada’s Maritime Launch Services Wins Multimillion-Dollar Investment Tax Credit for Spaceport Nova Scotia
The Canadian province of Nova Scotia will issue a Capital Investment Tax Credit (CITC) worth approximately $10.5 million (Canadian Dollars) to Maritime Launch Services, a Canadian space company that has been working to build a spaceport in Nova Scotia. Maritime Launch Services will apply the tax credit to construction costs for a dedicated launch pad…
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Maritime Launch and T-Minus Engineering to Debut Barracuda Launch from Spaceport Nova Scotia
Maritime Launch Services Inc. is pleased to announce a new collaboration with T-Minus Engineering B.V., a leading Dutch aerospace company, to launch the Barracuda, a hypersonic test platform, from Spaceport Nova Scotia in October 2025. This mission will represent the next step in advancing Spaceport Nova Scotia’s suborbital and hypersonic testing capabilities, as Maritime Launch…
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Airbus, CNES and VAST to Strengthen Earth Observation Capabilities in Vietnam
Airbus Defence and Space, the French Space Agency (CNES), and the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) have signed a Declaration of Intent (DoI) to strengthen their longstanding cooperation in the field of Earth observation, building on the success of the VNREDSat-1 space programme. This agreement was signed in Hanoi in the presence of French…
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Space Systems Command Awards $1.2B Contract to BAE for Epoch 2 Missile Tracking Satellites
Space Systems Command (SSC) has awarded a $1.2 billion contract for 10 Epoch 2 space vehicles for the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Resilient Missile Warning Tracking (MWT) architecture in Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) to BAE Systems’ Space and Mission Systems on May 29, 2025, through a firm fixed price Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement. SSC’s…